Fast forward 30 years to the current day and much has changed in the Australian landscape but Warwick's presence on the football field has remained a constant.

On Saturday the Macquarie club celebrated Warwick's achievement of 30 years of senior league during their clash with Nyngan.

All but two of those years have been for the Raiders with Warwick spending the 1991 and 92 seasons in the red and green on Westside.

On Saturday, a tunnel was made by the players for Warwick when he ran on the field while the crowd was filled with Raiders wearing special Brett Warwick masks.

That was followed by a party in the evening and Warwick said it was a special moment to look back at his career.

"I still enjoy it, there's been a lot of good teammates over the years and I've played with a lot," he said.

"I had no idea, my wife (Sonia) had a lot to do with it I think so I thank her for that but it was good to see a lot of old blokes after a while and a win topped it off."

The day was one the whole Macquarie club enjoyed and president Mark Meredith stated it was because Warwick is then kind of player every club would love to have.

"He just ticks all the boxes," he said.

"His enthusiasm and longevity is infectious for the young fellas who are coming though and aspire to play as long as they can.

"He gives them advice and mentors them and the older blokes just want to play with him."

Warwick, who turns 46 this year, started playing junior footy with South Dubbo in 1976 before making his senior debut for the Raiders 11 years later.

In 1988 he made Group 11 and Western under-19s.

After his brief stint with the Rabbitohs he returned to his boyhood club and went on to make the Group 11 senior side 1998 before being part of the Group 11 first grade winning side in 2000.

Since then he has won a reserve grade title in 2012 and shows no signs of slowing down.

"I always said as long as the body holds up (I'll keep playing) and the body doesn't get sore now," he said.

"I said I wanted to play longer than Marshall Peachey, who played until 45, and that was last year so I had a bit of a look at things and my son (Aston) is 13 now so maybe I could have a game of reserve grade with him.

"You've got to have something to aim for."

While still loving his rugby league, Warwick was blunt in his assessment of the way the game has changed during the time he has been playing.

"There's not the sponsorship money there was and I don't think it will be too long until Group 11 and Group 10 are combined because we're losing players," he said.

"When I was playing junior league there were kids in teams from every region in every age group.

"Now I coach my sons under-13s side and there's only three in the competition, three from Dubbo, Narromine and Cobar so something has to be done."